And if you're ever at a conference where they have a booth, stop by.
You might get a free VMWare workstation license out of it. I've gotten
2 this way from previous LinuxWorld conferences.
cheers,
steve
Bill Walker - Sun Principal Engineer wrote:
I have used vmware since early v4 of workstation.
Pros:
easy net configs for hotels, Starbucks, and even the
EVDO and 1xRTT cellular broadband goodies. The guest
just sees a DHCP or static network that is stable...
Multiple releases of the OS at the same time, or multiple
OS's at the same time. Nice for building code or doing
troubleshooting for a customer.
Multi-tier architectures within a single box (or laptop)
for customer demos.
"Cloning"... Clone a working NV33, and then upgrade the
clone to NV35. If it works, delete the original and keep
running. If it falls over, go back to the original and
debug the clone when you have spare cycles.
You can still play Quake4 and look at streaming CNN video
... while VPN'd into the office to read mail (and work
securely) under Solaris.
Workstation is ~ $190 USD, VMware server is free, but requires
Windows server 2003 for the windoze host. Throw a couple
hundred bucks in for that purchase, and a lack of support from
the PC parts vendors for 2003, headaches... It runs on XP, but
apparently isn't and won't be supported.
VMware player (free) lets you export a VM for others to run.
Other VMware servers can use your VM's, great way to deploy
pre-configured "machines" for demos or in production "commercial
grids".
Cons:
Performance is not as fast as bare metal... Not too bad
for browsing, software builds within reason, and reading mail.
Only 4G of memory available under Windoze (32bit) for VMware to
chop up into active VMs. Haven't tested x64 windoze or
Linux host OS's yet.
Workstation is ~ $190 USD, but runs on standard XP or XP/x64
(which likely came with your PC).
If you have the needs that match the capabilities of the VMware
goodies, I highly recommend giving them a spin (especially with
free demos of their products available for download).
bill.
Rich Teer wrote:
On Wed, 22 Mar 2006, Eric Boutilier wrote:
I've never installed/used VMware, so at the risk of this being a
Nor have I.
Q: If SunPCI-like (easy switching to Windows and back) functionality
on x86 is
what you want today, you can use Windows as the host OS and Solaris
as a guest
OS, correct? So I don't understand what the downside is of doing that...
You don't know the downside of running a bloated, virus-prone, insecure
OS all the time?! ;-)
I run Solaris 99.99% of the time, and have an occassional need to run
WIndoze.
In that context, running Solaris inside a Windoze-hosted VMware server
makes
no sense to me.
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